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Hostage. they're gonna make it worthless unless you pay the ransom. what do you do? the clock is ticking. you have just a few days to make that decision. the movie is the fifth installment of the "pirates of the caribbean" due to be released next friday. someone somewhere got into disney's database and stole a copy. hackers say they will release the first five minutes of the movie and continue to release it in 20 minute increments until disney pays up. the ceo says i'm not paying the ransom which the hackers want in the currency of cyber fees that hard to trace bit coin. very little is known a...

Reaching out talking to their intelligence teams to try to stop this virus and the damage that it has been causing. what this malware does, it freezes computers. it offers to return access if the users pay $300 in bit coin. up to 200,000 computers in 150 countries have been affected in all continents targeting major institutions, banks, including rail way services and national health services. in britain, countless hospitals were hit by the malware, some forced to cancel or delay treatment to sick patients leaving many doctors unable to access file, prescriptions, forcing many of them to rever...

Intelligence agencies are going to get involved now. these people wanted to be paid in bit coin. they think they can go into the deep web and collect. they are going to be found out. >> bit coin. appreciate your expertise. we are keeping an eye on seattle. hearings in the 9th circuit court of appeals are underway. we are keeping an eye on the white house where there is lots of activity this hour. the crown prince of abu dhabi due to aprive. sean spicer to hold his press briefing. house speaker paul ryan is in georgia campaigning for karen handle, the republican running against democrat john ...

$300 to $600 in bit coin payments and they were successful. there were three bit coin accounts that people paid. when threatened with the loss of their data people pay up. this could be a serious handicap for companies. >> what else could people do th then? should there be a reboot? is there anything people can do but pay? should they already be compromised? >> the best defense is protection. if you can do something now, update your system, back up your data. even if you are infected you can restore from backups. experts have been telling me the virus itself can be removed but not the files th...

Russia, ukraine, all the way to the other end of the planet to taiwan that have been affected and the fact this has spread through private and public networks of computers as well. what are we talking about here? we're talking about a virus called want to cry or a variation of that. essentially a malware that locks the files on a user's computer, encrypts them and demand a ransom paid in bit coin of about $300 to $600 to regain control of these files. in the meantime a clock ticks down and say they otherwise will be destroyed if you don't pay up. seems to be spreading through a weakness in the...